Filling Atmo Suits With Oxygen

[Breakdowns]

I'm beginning to set up Atmo Suits (Iron) to give my dupes more protection with they leave my insulated base but I'm noticing a potential issue as I set everything up. The suits take a very long time to fill up. The dupes can't even use them yet but it's taken many cycles just to partially fill one.

I have 10 suit stations in a row powered by Conductive Wire (Gold) and each are connected to a vent connected directly to my Full Rodriguez SPOM.

Is it possible that 10 is just too many to have at a single exit? Should I be feeding the suits with more than 1 oxygen source? Or am I worrying over nothing and having 10 suits hooked up to one oxygen source is just fine?

Thanks.

[cswiger]

The most I use in one spot is generally 4, but I've done up to 8 docks when I was trying for the 20 dupe base. One full gas pipe per 4 docks works well, so a full Rod for 10 - 12 docks ought to be fine.

[Breakdowns]

Originally posted by cswiger:

The most I use in one spot is generally 4, but I've done up to 8 docks when I was trying for the 20 dupe base. One full gas pipe per 4 docks works well, so a full Rod for 10 - 12 docks ought to be fine.

Ah, I was just coming back to report that my set up is actually working.

I didn't know that the docks themselves were being filled and the docks in turn filled the suits. So, quite a lot of oxygen was going to dock, much more than I expected.

After leaving it awhile the docks closest to the fresh air are filling to capacity and the other docks are slowly approaching capacity as well. I've actually set up an overflow system so that when all the docks are eventually filled the excess oxygen will be released into my base.

[cswiger]

Yeah, the docks hold something like 150 kg, which is 2.5 cycles of normal consumption. It should only take about one cycle to refill each dock if it is not being used; longer otherwise.

[euphoria96]

I use 12 in a row, fed by 2 gas pumps. Yes it takes a long time to get set up initially, but once they are full its easy to refill.

[Cyrus]

Originally posted by Breakdowns:

I'm beginning to set up Atmo Suits (Iron) to give my dupes more protection with they leave my insulated base but I'm noticing a potential issue as I set everything up. The suits take a very long time to fill up. The dupes can't even use them yet but it's taken many cycles just to partially fill one.

I have 10 suit stations in a row powered by Conductive Wire (Gold) and each are connected to a vent connected directly to my Full Rodriguez SPOM.

Is it possible that 10 is just too many to have at a single exit? Should I be feeding the suits with more than 1 oxygen source? Or am I worrying over nothing and having 10 suits hooked up to one oxygen source is just fine?

Thanks.

The answer greatly depends on the following.. What is, and how much flow is your oxygen source? As long as you are making (and pumping) all the oxygen you dupes already need, you should have enough for your docs once they fill up.

Now the docks do hold a fair amount as a buffer so can take some time to fill, but once full the oxygen demand drops significantly and only needs to top off on what the dupes use while wearing when they return.

Nearly all my bases end up being 16-32 docks at one entrance. One full pipe of oxygen can 'support' 10+ docks even if being used at 100% by dupes. I tend to do a piper for every 4-6 docks or so, especially the docks next to the gate as those get used significantly more.